Best Prison movies

Actors : Grace Glowicki, Noah Reid, Katie Boland, Sheila McCarthy,

When Valerie returns home from prison years after killing her neighbour in an apparent drunk driving accident, she wants nothing more than to move on - until the deceased's son shows up at ...

Actors : Jorge Rivero, Barbara Hershey, James Coburn, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

In the early 20th century, some convicts while on a road gang escape and one of the convicts is Zach Provo, a half Indian, who was sent to prison during the latter part of the 19th century....

Actors : Robert Patrick, Nipsey Hussle, Ving Rhames, Gillie Da Kid,
Directors : Ryan Combs,

Cain, a crime king-pin sentenced to life in prison, sees his son Ricky come to jail on charges of accessory to murder, followed shortly by one of the gangsters he was charged with ...

Actors : Alison Doody, Lotte Verbeek, Linus Roache, Clarke Peters,
Directors : S.A. Halewood,

2039. Jails have been turned into online portals where the public gets to choose what prisoners eat, wear, watch and who they fight. So successful is Panopticon TV, it is about to be rolled...

Actors : Ryan Guzman, Sylvester Stallone, Matthew Modine, Meadow Williams,
Directors : Brian A. Miller,

The lone surviving thief of a violent armored car robbery is sprung from a high security facility and administered an experimental drug.

Actors : Shilpa Shirodkar, Sridevi, Amitabh Bachchan, Nagarjuna Akkineni,
Directors : Mukul Anand,

Baadshah Khan falls in love with Benazir, a member of a rival clan who has defeated him in a game of buzkashi. Benazir will not marry him unless he brings back the head of her father's ...

Actors : Lisa Stansfield, Paul Usher, Tom Bell, Hugo Speer,
Directors : Nick Mead,

An optimistic guy is arrested and thrown in jail, while there he learns the saxophone from a fellow inmate. Once he's released from jail, he and a few friends form a swing band while he ...

Actors : Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Elizabeth Taylor, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Peter Ustinov,

The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The patient (Burton) offers the innocent orderly (...

Actors : Anthony LaPaglia, Gabriel Byrne, Val Kilmer, Vinnie Jones,
Directors : Sean Stanek,

An examination of the malevolent London underworld with its despicable criminal underground. Ray (Mick Rossi) just finished an eight-year prison sentence after getting set up. Now he is back on the streets to settle the score.

Actors : Wendell Burton, Michael Greer, Danny Freedman, Zooey Hall,

The young, naive Smitty is sent to prison for six months; Cathy, his girlfriend, watches as he disappears behind the bars and barbed wire. He's assigned a cell with Queenie, a balls-out ...

Actors : Eileen Walsh, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Martin McCann, Barry Ward,
Directors : Stephen Burke,

Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II.

Actors : Anita Barone, Bruce Campbell, William Stanford Davis, Jeremy Roberts,
Directors : Josh Becker,

Running Time was filmed in black and white, in real time, and seemingly takes place in one continuous, fluid shot. It's a little like Hitchcock's "Rope," but it's on location! Carl, an ...

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Werner Schreyer, Mickey Rourke, Danny Trejo,
Directors : Matt Earl Beesley,

Convicted corporate criminal Howard engineers a prison break as he and a number of fellow inmates are being transferred to a new facility. The escapees storm a shopping mall and take a ...

Actors : Blanca Portillo, Urko Olazabal, Luis Tosar, María Cerezuela,
Directors : Icíar Bollaín,

11 years after her husband was killed by the Basque group ETA, Maixabel Lasa agrees to a request to meet one of the assassins who is in prison, in an attempt to find some kind of restorative justice.

Actors : Vangelis Mourikis, Petros Zervos, Yannis Tsortekis, Vicky Papadopoulou,
Directors : Yannis Economides,

By night, Stratos works in a bread factory but by day, he's a professional hit man. He needs the cash to free Leonidas from prison because the latter once saved his life when he was behind ...

Actors : Billy Zane, Cara Jade Myers, Zach Roerig,
Directors : Shaun Silva,

A struggling sheriff teams up with a tough U.S. Marshal to detain a cunning female outlaw. As tensions rise within their posse, they must face an approaching gang led by the prisoner's violent husband.

Actors : Michèle Morgan, Anthony Quinn, George Segal, Alain Delon,
Directors : Mark Robson,

French Army Colonel Raspeguy leads his paratroopers in battle against the Communist Viet Minh in Indochina and against Algerian guerrilla during the Algerian War.

Actors : Ryô, Shun Sugata, Koyuki, Hideo Sakaki,
Directors : Ryûhei Kitamura,

After survivng his own execution, Tenshu choses to be subjected to the bizarre experiments of the prison officials.

Actors : Antoine McLean, Mtume Gant, Shawn Elliott, Brendan Sexton III,
Directors : Morgan J. Freeman,

Marcus is a kid on Manhattan's mean streets. He's turning 15, his father is dead, his mother is in prison for smuggling undocumented aliens. His grandmother is raising him. He has four ...

Actors : Itay Hod, Rachel Dratch, Jason Bellini, Sally Jessy Raphael,
Directors : Matt Kugelman,

Sequel to the 2016 comedy 'Hurricane Bianca'.